St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-23
THE INSPECTION.


This being the order at starting. when
the cars are duly reached the first man
opens the door, runs up the little ladder
and into the car, sinking deep In the
golden grain. He makes six dives with
his plunger in six different places, then
withdraWS and puts what he has brought
up on the same spot as near as possible
by the door. This is what is inspected.
A plunger, it must be understood, is a
rod within rod; pushed down it is all
closed, but when at the bottom
grain slides in and is caught, and thus
on an average samples from all over
each car are obtained. Then the in
spector mounts, while No. man pro-
ceedS to the next car, and so Oh ad
libitum. The inspector closely and care
fully examines the cereal, feels it,smellS
it, weighs out thirty ounces, puts it
Though his sieve and cleans it, puts it
back into the tester, and for every half
ounce of dirt over one pound is charged
for cleaning; that is, reckoning at the
rate of one pound to every half
ounce. Then the inspector decides the
grade of that particular wheat, and it is
duly entered on the card. He then pro-
ceeds to the next car, and goes through
the operation described till the days
work is done.
Meanwhile the third man is following
in his wake and chalking as he goes
what seem
cABALIsTIc FIG UREs
to the simple, but to the initiated they
are such signs as Ii 2, and under
meath, 10; then again 1. o 2, r. j., n.
c., and so on. These terms are as fa-
miliar to grain men as Q. E. d. is to
mathematicians. They originated in
oh
two pounds for shrinkage, Northern
jected, and N. G. eXplaines itself.
Sometimes the men of the firms use
their own plungers before filling the lit
tie bags up, and sometimes they depend
on the inspectors estimate. The re-
ceipts this fall are very heavy and the
men are worked exceptionally hard, be-
cause good deal of poor wheat that
has to be carefully watched is
coming in all the time. Satur-
days and Sundays generally mark
heavy arrivals, and frequently on a
Sabbath these men have not ten min
utes to spare to go and eat something
all day. This does not seem to trouble
them much, but they do kick against
the roads, saying they should endeavor
to facilitate business and ease their
work a little by running the wheat cars
as close together as possible instead of
having them scattered as they do at
present, all over creation, here and
there and everywhere in the yards, de-
void of system or business or anything
else.
When blue ticket is tackled to a. car
it signifies inspection Into" store. A
red ticket signifies inspection ''out' of
store, but these tickets are merely
memoranda of inspection. In case of any
doubt one can send and get the official
certificate at the Office in the corn ey-
change.
WHEN EVENING COMES
f a party is out, say on the Northern
Pacific road, at NOrthtown JuctiOn.
they lay for passing train or engine
that they can jump, and when one comes
| putting in sight they all get in readiness.
Some catch the caboOse, some leap on
an open car and the rest grab for the
| engine, and in this manner they reach
the center of the city. This is how it
comes about that man with a velye-
| teen suit, a queer-looking stick and
little white bags on his shoulders and
back, is one of the peculiarities seen on
our streets, and those who read this
article will find, to use one of the yul-
| garisms of the present day, that 'I
have given the whole snap away